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  • Highwood Pumpkin Fest attempts to break world record
  • The Village of Highwood will attempt to break the Guinness Book of World Records for 32,000 pumpkins lit at the same time this weekend at the Highwood Pumpkin Fest.
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  • New $100 bill introduced at Federal Reserve Bank
  • The Fed introduced the new $100 bill that we will soon be appearing at a bank near you.
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  • Daley Plaza Picasso statue model going on auction
  • Picasso donated his design to the City of Chicago, but it still cost over $350,000 in donated money to build it.
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  • Best friends met 95 years ago on Chicago?s North Side
  • Alice Jensen and Irene Cook were both born in 1913 on Chicago's North Side, 100 years ago. They became best friends at age 5 and they are still best friends today.
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  • Goats hired by Naperville park to devour weeds
  • Are the weeds out of control in your yard or your neighbor's yard? You just might need a herd of goats.
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  • Skokie apple grower has 178 varieties in back yard, does not like to eat apples
  • The apple harvest is in, and this fall it's a bumper crop.
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  • Chicago photographer Dennis Manarchy focuses on big picture
  • In a world of smaller and smaller digital cameras, Dennis Manarchy is thinking big. Really big. He uses a 35-foot long camera to shift the focus on those less photographed.
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  • Rare baby black rhino makes Lincoln Park Zoo debut
  • His name is King, and at Lincoln Park Zoo, he is royalty.
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  • In an apartment once occupied by Ernest Hemingway, Anna Dominguez, 26, is fulfilling her talent, living her dream and making a living as an artist.
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  • Scientists breeding nearly-extinct butterflies
  • In a small laboratory a six-year project to save an endangered species, an extremely rare creature called the swamp metalmark is just about to make a comeback.
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  • Harvard farm claims it developed sweetest sweet corn
  • Whose corn is the sweetest? ABC7's Frank Mathie says the answer is at a farm in Harvard, Illinois.
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  • he Field Museum offers a rare look back at that historic Columbian Exposition
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  • Worlds Columbian Exposition returns to the Field
  • The Field Museum offers a rare look back at that historic Columbian Exposition
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  • Rare orange Francois Langur monkey born at Lincoln Park Zoo
  • Little Pierre weighs only about a pound, but already he is becoming a big star at the Lincoln Park Zoo.
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  • Royal baby picture, prince william, kate middleton, duchess of cambridge
  • The newest prince of England was introduced around the world, and many in the United States of America are cheering. Why?
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  • Should guys wear T-shirts under their dress shirts?
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  • Blandings turtle
  • Brookfield Zoo is breeding and rearing endangered Blanding's turtles for release back into the wild.
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  • Blackhawks ticket stubs
  • What does Blackhawks Superfan Bob Gertenrich do the morning after Chicago clinches the Stanley Cup? He watches the replays. Of course.
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  • Our closest animal relatives just got a promotion. New research at Lincoln Park Zoo says chimpanzees have personalities very similar to ours.
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  • man sprays down grill
  • Have you ever taken off the cover of your grill after a long, cold winter and thought, what a mess? Now a company will take care of the cleanup for you.
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  • When Dino Kapadia goes golfing, he doesn't bring along any golf clubs. He doesn't need them - he has a Drutter.
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  • A nickel is a nickel is a nickel. Unless it's a 1913 Liberty Head nickel.
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  • To celebrate his 449th birthday, Foundlings Theatre Company is nonstop Shakespeare, from dusk to dawn.
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  • For over 90 years, the old Fulton Market Cold Storage building stood untouched at 1000 W. Fulton.
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  • For over 90 years, the old Fulton Market Cold Storage building stood untouched at 1000 W. Fulton.
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  • Brendan Cournane has never won the Boston Marathon, but he's run it many times.
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  • In February, a huge meteorite exploded into thousands of pieces over Russia. Now some of those treasures from space are at Chicago's Field Museum.
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  • Travel back in time -- about 200 million years -- at Brookfield Zoo. Dinosaurs Alive! returns- bigger and better than ever.
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  • Too often people forget those killed in combat. Now, a street sign will remind the neighborhood of Private First Class Omar Torres.
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  • Fashion lovers can buy a piece of couture history at an auction that is part of an Ebony Fashion Fair exhibit.
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  • One of America's greatest authors Ernest Hemingway was born and raised in suburban Oak Park.
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  • One man says he lived through the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp because he was a barber.
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  • Who were the greatest artists of all time? Picasso? The great masters? Cavemen from 20,000 years ago?
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  • St. Patrick's Day lasts longer than 24 hours in Chicago, and celebrations often stretch across a week- or more.
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  • When it comes to winter in Chicago, one thing can really blow away the work- a snow blower.
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  • They blink, glow, flash and flicker! A new Field Museum exhibit shines new light on some tiny creatures.
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  • A relic -- a shin bone -- of Mary Magdalene, one of Christianity's most revered saints, is on a month-long tour of Chicago and the Midwest.
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  • ABC7's Frank Mathie found an unusual career combination- a rapping pastor.
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  • Two newborns have visitors at Lincoln Park Zoo asking the same question: What's a takin?
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  • The surviving Chicago teenager who was shot alongside his friend Hadiya Pendleton speaks about the ordeal.
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  • Paczki Day is the busiest day of the year at Delightful Pastries, an authentic Polish bakery in Chicago.
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  • For 19 years, Bumek the cat has helped people with addictions recover at the Polish American Association.
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  • Kekasih, a 4-year-old orangutan, has a new friend. Thani, 3, is a white-cheeked gibbon. Both apes live at Brookfield Zoo.
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  • Karl Lau was 19 years old when he flew missions in the South Pacific off the aircraft carrier Lexington during World War II.
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  • A plumbing company is helping flush away a Make-A-Wish volunteer's money worries.
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  • it's one of those days that hurts. Jack Frost is nipping at your nose and ears and all exposed skin.
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  • It's a tale of two tails - or four flippers - at Shedd Aquarium.
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  • A miniature work of art created 100 years ago honors the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
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  • Josh Iachelli and Clay Hamilton are in the process of fulfilling a crazy dream- bringing Oregon, and lots of logs, to Chicago.
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